This chapter investigates the contextual conditions that impact the practice of journalism and how these traumatic experiences among journalists invite them to exercise context-specific ethics. Using the context of Zimbabwe as a case study, we note that the country has a “polarised pluralist” media system soiled by political interference, corruption, biased editorial policies, restrictive media laws, political activism, an unstable economy, and persecution of journalists. Theoretically, we lean on the field theory, and methodologically, the study makes use of in-depth interviews with private and state journalists to extract perspectives on how they ethically adapt to navigate the traumatic journalism field. The chapter argues that traumatic experiences of journalists’ persecution indirectly influence the adoption of context-specific ethics to navigate the unfriendly terrain.